Parse-metatags plugin The parse-metatags plugin consists of a HTMLParserFilter which takes as parameter a list of metatag names with '*' as default value. The values are separated by ';'. In order to extract the values of the metatags description and keywords, you must specify in nutch-site.xml metatags.names description;keywords Prefixes the names with 'metatag.' in the parse-metadata. For instance to index description and keywords, you need to activate the plugin index-metadata and set the value of the parameter 'index.parse.md' to 'metatag.description;metatag.keywords'. This code has been developed by DigitalPebble Ltd and offered to the community by ANT.com